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vnay bo, affected thus favorably. No fear, either, that the 

 market for horses, mules and oxen will bo ruined. If they 

 decline in value for one object, they may be devoted to other 

 objects : as were the tens of thousands of horses on the great 

 stage routes which the railroads have superseded, and never 

 bore so high a price as now. And the coarso grasses, too, 

 which feed them they will all be wanted for objects not now, 

 perhaps, thought of; and the lamentations of the timid man, 

 who sees nothing but " ruin " in all such improvement, as his 

 father before him, saw in turnpike roads and canals, will pass 

 for nothing. 



There have been sundry attempts made at the steam plow ; 

 but it has been a plow solely, and no other principle sought 

 than that of applying steam to operate it as it now operates 

 by draft defective, of course, in the objections which have 

 been remarked. American ingenuity has given the grain- 

 reaper to England, which, although but a year there, is rap- 

 idly introducing a revolution in her harvests ; and it is hardly 

 too sanguine a hope to indulge, that some equally inventive 

 genius to him who first built the reaper, may avail himself 

 of the hints so clearly thrown out by our author, and succeed 

 in perfecting an instrument that will yield imperishable re- 

 nown to himself, and confer untold benefits upon the agricul- 

 ture of the country. ED. 



